Odd factoids

[classic33]

Not since the great haggis plague of 1997. There aren't enough wild haggis left now, so artificial skins are used.

This is clearly untrue.

But due to the habit of the haggis running in the same direction along the hills, they evolved with one leg slightly longer than the other. This means that they will always run round the hill, in the same direction.*

Extensive interbreeding of the two types is currently underway, in the hope that they can finally overcome this evolutionary freak and have haggis with the same size legs able to run up & down hills and on the flatter lands.

*This freak of evolution gave us the the song "They'll be coming round the mountain", which they did when one set of pipes was played. The haggis mistaking it for the mating call of another. Those waiting to catch them could be heard singing the above, with their own verses thrown in, whilst they awaited the haggis appearing.

It proved such a popular working song that the piper was often paid to play it. This gave rise to the saying "That he who pays the piper, calls the tune" as they'd often be hunting for days on end before they came up with such a simple method of catching them.

 

[Kempstonian]

This is clearly untrue.

But due to the habit of the haggis running in the same direction along the hills, they evolved with one leg slightly longer than the other. This means that they will always run round the hill, in the same direction.*

Extensive interbreeding of the two types is currently underway, in the hope that they can finally overcome this evolutionary freak and have haggis with the same size legs able to run up & down hills and on the flatter lands.

*This freak of evolution gave us the the song "They'll be coming round the mountain", which they did when one set of pipes was played. The haggis mistaking it for the mating call of another. Those waiting to catch them could be heard singing the above, with their own verses thrown in, whilst they awaited the haggis appearing.

It proved such a popular working song that the piper was often paid to play it. This gave rise to the saying "That he who pays the piper, calls the tune" as they'd often be hunting for days on end before they came up with such a simple method of catching them.

Its a little known fact that the leg is the tastiest part of a haggis. Its the only bit I like.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Its a little known fact that the leg is the tastiest part of a haggis. Its the only bit I like.

This is lucky, since the remainder is simply one huge testicle, the Haggis being the only remaining member of the genus Monobollockus.

 

[Kempstonian]

This is lucky, since the remainder is simply one huge testicle, the Haggis being the only remaining member of the genus Monobollockus.

*insert tasteless joke about Adolf's ancestry here*

 

[raleighnut]

I'm not sure about the Egypt thing. After all, wild haggis are native to Scotland. I don't think there are any records of them in the middle east.

The Wild Haggis was introduced to Egypt however it wasn't very successful due to it's anatomy,

This is clearly untrue.

But due to the habit of the haggis running in the same direction along the hills, they evolved with one leg slightly longer than the other. This means that they will always run round the hill, in the same direction.*

Extensive interbreeding of the two types is currently underway, in the hope that they can finally overcome this evolutionary freak and have haggis with the same size legs able to run up & down hills and on the flatter lands.

*This freak of evolution gave us the the song "They'll be coming round the mountain", which they did when one set of pipes was played. The haggis mistaking it for the mating call of another. Those waiting to catch them could be heard singing the above, with their own verses thrown in, whilst they awaited the haggis appearing.

It proved such a popular working song that the piper was often paid to play it. This gave rise to the saying "That he who pays the piper, calls the tune" as they'd often be hunting for days on end before they came up with such a simple method of catching them.

However the wily Egyptians built some artificial mountains for them to live on but this led to them being harder to hunt so they built some with a different design.........................flat sides so they could see em coming from a way off.

 

[classic33]

Duty Free shopping was invented by Brendan O’Reagan, County Clare, in 1947.

 

[Drago]

Brendan O'Reagan is the secret love child of Brendan Fraser and Ronald Reagan. To this day it is not known which is the mother and which the father.

 

[Andy_R]

John Constable's bucolic painting "The Haywain" was never intended to be called that, but over the course of painting it, he had to keep on leaning out of his studio window to shout "Hey, Wayne, move that bloody cart will you, it's spoiling my painting", which led to the name .

 

[ClichéGuevara]

In several Cabinet meetings in 1995,, John Major was replaced by his waxwork, and nobody noticed.

 

[classic33]

In several Cabinet meetings in 1995,, John Major was replaced by his waxwork, and nobody noticed.

And he replaced his waxwork self in Madame Tussaud's.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

London has produced more crap UK bands than any other city or town.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Ironmongers are struggling to cope with the demand for imperial nuts, bolts and washers since leaving the EU immediately rendered metric ones obsolete.

 

[classic33]

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860..
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960..

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets weird.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

And!
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe

 

[Drago]

Marilyn Monroe I vented the shock absorber, and started a successful company to manufacture them.

 

[bruce1530]

Marilyn Monroe was a keen mountaineer and hillwalker. She catalogued all of the mountains and hills in Scotland which are over 3000 feet.

These mountains and hills are now collectively known as “Marilyns”